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artist 📸 + activist / have lupus, studying the spectacularization of hydroxychloroquine / just trying to have a nice time On The Internet™️ / she/they #DoMaskBlocShit 😷🦋🍐🏳️‍🌈 tiktok/twitter: @babs_zone elsewhere: https://bio.site/amphoto

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Aug 5

are you so over wildfire smoke? allergies? this getting covid repeatedly thing? protect yourself with filtered air!
•Bonafide Masks
•WellBefore
•Dräger
•BeHealthy
•Laianzhi
•BNX
•3M
•MaskC
•CambridgeMask
*buying directly from distributors (some use amazon)=best way to avoid less than quality product

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2h

can’t wait to see if this website runs on essentially the same model as a “speakwithanmd/com” or an “all family pharmacy” or a “wellness company” ie: the physical manifestations & fulfillment centers of the far right alt-medical disinfo machine 🥲

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Oz announces that TrumpRx.gov is now live.

If you click, you'll see — it's essentially just a banner ad for now.

U.S. officials have said it will formally launch in January 2026 and help Americans find discounted drugs.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 8h

Many of us are saying. Dark play/serious play. Performance studies. Fandom studies. Participatory culture in everything.

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

!!hbd!!

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

me at a blonde popstar; we all need sOmething 🥲

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

Stephen Miller's Hit List
The White House provided Reuters with a list of "liberal groups, donors or fundraising organizations that it said helped finance or plan protests where the violent incidents occurred":
• George Soros' Open Society Foundations
• ActBlue
• Indivisible
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
• IfNotNow
• Jewish Voice for Peace
One White House official "stressed that the organizations were not necessarily potential targets," Reuters reported.
President Trump has previously targeted Soros and Reid Hoffman by name.

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

nah but it won’t happen to tHeM kendra, they’re ✨different✨

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

f r ö g ę b l ø c

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

at least she’s set us up to think he’s too poor to break that nda 🤪

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 22h

oh yea and i looked cute there too 🌊✨

babs (a white femme person with long pink hair with brown roots) stands in front of bixby bridge in big sur, ca. they’re wearing a white tee, black pants, an orange denim jacket, and tan birkenstocks with brown sunglasses, and their film camera slung around their shoulder. it’s suuuuuper windy and they’re holding their hair from blowing everywhere.

babs (a white femme person with long pink hair with brown roots) stands in front of bixby bridge in big sur, ca. they’re wearing a white tee, an orange denim jacket, and brown sunglasses, with their film camera slung around their shoulder. it’s suuuuuper windy and they’re holding their hair from blowing everywhere.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 21h

ahh tytytyty friend

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 21h

an endeavor so many years and still in the works 😭🙏🏻

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 22h

oh yea and i looked cute there too 🌊✨

babs (a white femme person with long pink hair with brown roots) stands in front of bixby bridge in big sur, ca. they’re wearing a white tee, black pants, an orange denim jacket, and tan birkenstocks with brown sunglasses, and their film camera slung around their shoulder. it’s suuuuuper windy and they’re holding their hair from blowing everywhere.

babs (a white femme person with long pink hair with brown roots) stands in front of bixby bridge in big sur, ca. they’re wearing a white tee, an orange denim jacket, and brown sunglasses, with their film camera slung around their shoulder. it’s suuuuuper windy and they’re holding their hair from blowing everywhere.

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 1d

Reem's family has less than $1k to raise to reach their goal! Please consider spreading their fundraiser and/or donating if you are able

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 1d

I’m Reem, from Gaza. The war may be over, but we still live in the middle of its ashes. I was a college student. I was studying, dreaming and planning a life of hope but I lost everything in my home. My family’s livelihood has been erased💔😭
The rest of the text in the comments!!!

gofund.me/de96cb50

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d

Why be just ableist when you can be both ableist & (yet again) antisemitic?

What we *need* in healthcare is a cheap, over-the-counter pill that makes RFK invisible & soundless to all.

& btw, he also said fetuses grow in placentae; they grow in uteri, doofus.

www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-ties-...

RFK Jr. Ties Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol in Bonkers Rant

The Health Secretary also accused some pregnant women of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

www.thedailybeast.com

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

*extremely* felt. sometimes my lupus makes itself seen other ways, but ironically the main way is a facial rash a mask now covers.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

believing in science, but not wanting to continue wearing a mask would sound like this: “i’m getting vaccinated bc it’ll help me fight off covid, but does not prevent me from spreading covid nor does it prevent me from developing long covid. these are risks i have decided to take”

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

:(

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

is this press pool so neutered that no one is going to ask any of these people a normal question

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

i am, for better or for worse and at the same time as many other feelings, exquisitely grateful for these silly little platforms and all they’ve brought me.

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

social media…
•connected me w faraway friends as a lonely only child
•allowed me to learn abt the small college i’d ultimately attend
•is how i met all 3 of my current partners
•got me my current job
•played a major role in getting 300k+ masks on faces during the 2025 LA fires
…& prob more too tbh 🥺

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?